Abortions should elicit outrage

Published 5:49 pm, Wednesday, August 14, 2013

As of late there have not been any articles in the newspaper concerning abortion.

The strongest religious advocate opposing abortion was the late Pope John Paul II. He said "no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being." Precisely for this reason God will severely judge every violation of the commandment, "You shall not kill," the commandment which is at the basis of all life together in society. Nothing or no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus, embryo or a newborn.

As far as the right to life is concerned, every innocent human being is absolutely equal to all others. There are no privileges or exceptions for anyone. It makes no difference whether one is the "richest of the rich" or the "poorest of the poor." Only God is the master of life! The decision to deprive an innocent human being of his or her life is morally evil.

The total number of abortions in the United States from 1973 to 2013: 56.4 million. Think about it, 56.4 million babies were deprived of life. Where is the outrage!!?

All of us, by definition, were unborn at one point. And every one of us born after January 22, 1973, (Roe v. Wade) could have been deprived of life for any or no reason at all.

Our selective refusal to recognize the vulnerability of the unborn exposes the lie to claims of "compassion."